With offices all over the country full of the latest technology with instantaneous network communications available at the press of a button, it is easy to forget that only fifteen years ago there were no emails, internet phones, mobile phones with Bluetooth technology and chat rooms available. So what would we do without all of these powerful network communications most of us use on a daily basis? This article will be looking at how we used communicate and how life would be without the developments in technology we have today.

Communications from the very beginning were very different from how they are today, beyond grunting cavemen there was of course the marathon runner. This runner was all of your network communications, so if an important message needed to be passed on then this man did your job, running to the location you wanted and hopefully by the right time. Unlike the battery dying on your laptop or mobile phone however, you were probably due to loose the dying runner after he delivered your message.

So most network communication technicians can now live in relief that they only have to install technology rather than give their life for messages to be passed around. However after people started dying passing on their messages people started thinking of ways they could improve network communications. Soon beacons, mirrors and torches were beginning to be used for communication and were used right into the twentieth century. The big problems with these forms of communication were that they had to be very simple to work; American Indians had been using smoke signals for many years but this was not enough.

It wasn't until war time that pushed the development of network communications; it was in the eighteenth century when the French were battling for a revolution that they found a way to communicate quickly. The Chappe brothers covered the country with optical telegraph stations, which sent messages with visual signals from a tower. The Chappe brothers were the first real example of network communications on a large scale, but despite this being a step forward in the technology before actual progress in the nineteenth century.

Samuael F.B Morse was the first inventor to patent the electrical telegraph and created what's known today as the Morse Code. This evolved network communications at an astonishing rate as the telegraphs cousin the telephone was developed, since then technology has made leaps and bounds with satellite and internet technology.